A quick reminder — we’re going to start our symposium on democracy on Monday. The opening question...
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
A young woman from the PRC named Wu Minxia was one of two teammates to win the...
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It’s amazing to me that kindergarten remains a controversial subject, but a specimen in one of those...
Judge Richard Posner succinctly iterates my own thoughts about the Supreme Court leaks specifically and more generally...
In a post, and then in a comment thread about the Electoral College, Ryan Noonan develops the...
United States v. Alvarez — Ninth Circuit affirmed, the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional. Breakdown is Concurrence plurality...
I propose this as a collaborative post; I invite all the Front Pagers to add to this...
It’s unclear to me whether the inequality symposium is over. But this issue is breaking on the...
One of the reasons I’m (slowly) working my way through the great and politically important cases in...
As a follow-up to my post two weeks ago about California’s jungle primary, the winners, moving on...
This one took me a very long time to write. The subject matter was difficult and complex to...
The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the companion cases of Gill v. Office...
Your geocacher should read: 36° 8′ 13″ North; 115° 9′ 9″ West. On your navigation device, that’s...
I filled out my absentee ballot to vote in California’s June primary yesterday. California has recently adopted...
